Rahul Nair

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's threat to impose duties on U.S. oil imports will hit a business that has soared in the last two years, and which is now worth almost $1 billion per month.<p>In an escalating spat over the United States' trade deficit with most of its major trading partners, including …

For almost five weeks last year, Shikha Gupta*, an Indian working with a large consulting firm in New York, was unemployed and without pay, because of the Donald Trump administration’s changes to the <b></b>H-1B visa process.<p>Gupta, a New York University graduate, had been working for about nine months with …

“Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.” So a senior British official was quoted as saying to Newsweek in 2002, witnessing the competitive bellicosity in the Bush administration’s run-up to the war in Iraq.<p>This week President Donald Trump asserted his claim to be a real man …

Walmart made a big splash in India this week with its $16 billion (Rs1 lakh crore) acquisition of Flipkart. But the deal is unlikely to get the world’s largest retailer too far in a country that’s still obsessed with its mom-and-pop store culture.<p>That’s because Walmart has bet on a segment of …

SEOUL (Reuters) - At their first summit in more than a decade on Friday, the leaders of North and South Korea held hands, planted a tree, and signed a pledge to pursue peace on the peninsula.<p>South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attend a banquet on the Peace House …

The Donald Trump administration’s hard stance on immigration is beginning to take a toll on the US economy.<p>Colleges and universities in the country are seeing dwindling revenue streams as foreign students choose to stay away, according to an April 24 report (pdf) published by the US immigration …

LONDON — Britain is increasingly likely to secure a last-minute soft Brexit deal which keeps it in the single market and customs union, according to Morgan Stanley.<p>Economists for the US bank said in a research note on Thursday that the first-round agreement struck between the EU and UK in December …

US president Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering a proposal that could lead to the deportation of thousands of Indians and drastically impact Indian IT business.<p>According to an internal memo circulated in the department of homeland security, the US government could ask workers …

Firms leading UK push for shale gas say ‘we will see results next year’ after 12 months of opposition, protests and a ban in Scotland<p>British shale gas companies have said domestic fracking will finally begin in earnest in 2018, after another year passed without serious progress amid strong …

<b>Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) —</b> The monks, clad in vermillion robes and flip flops, line up from old to young to receive a meal in their alms bowls -- rice, vegetables, cookies -- all donated by local villagers.<p>It's a potent act of religious devotion that takes place every day across countless communities …

It looks like America will miss out on an important trade deal.<p>On January 23, only three days into his administration, President Donald Trump withdrew from the negotiations process over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the gargantuan free trade agreement that he’d railed against on the campaign …

Gennady Gudkov, a retired KGB colonel, peered at me across his dark, vaulted office in an old Moscow manor house.<p>"I'm going to tell you something that I've never told anyone before," he said. "About 10 years ago, Russia had the opportunity to seriously influence election results in France."<p>Gudkov, …

Poorer families and unemployed will be especially badly hit, says thinktank report calculating cost of walking away from EU without trade deal<p>Households face increases of up to £930 in their annual shopping bills if Britain walks away from Brexit talks without a trade deal, according to new …

Bank of England’s raised cost of borrowing, from 0.25% to 0.5%, may add £22 a month to average variable interest rate loans<p>Millions of homeowners face higher mortgage payments after the Bank of England said it could no longer tolerate the inflation level and announced the first increase in interest …

Thinktank says it is ‘almost certain’ leave vote has damaged living standards as it scales back economic growth forecasts<p>British households are each more than £600 a year worse off following the vote to leave the European Union, according to one of the UK’s leading economic forecasting bodies.<p>The …